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Anarchy & order : the interplay of politics and law in international relations

This is a study of the political parameters of international law and, conversely, the law's relevance and reach in international politics. At the theoretical level, it bridges the competing dominant paradigms - neorealism and neoliberalism - in the contemporary IR literature.Read more...

Neorealism and international law --
The security dilemma and international law --
Self-help and international law --
War and peace and international law --
Sovereignty, jurisdiction, immunity, and state responsibility: constraint of anarchy --
Human rights and international law: state sovereignty in check --
Self-determination, decolonization, and the collapse of empires --
Control over the environment: common legacy of humankind --
Three perspectives in international relations: Hobbesian, Kantian, and Grotian --
Order amidst anarchy: the Westphalian System into the twenty-first century.